any answer would be greatly apprieciated
If you had find my iPhone on in the iCloud settings and you know the apple I d and password associated with it you can go to the iCloud web page and track the phone if it is on and if someone has not found and wiped it, also you can lock or erase the phone remotely as well from the iCloud
did you activate Find My iphone, and icloud?
I did!
You'll find the app in settings